GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
Assistant Localization Manager will play a critical role in ensuring that our video games are adapted, translated, and culturally tailored to reach a global audience. Your expertise in languages, cultural nuances, and gaming industry trends will contribute to delivering high-quality localized content that resonates with players. Localization Supervisor will be responsible for overseeing the localization process, managing a team of translators and coordinators, and collaborating with various departments to ensure smooth and effective localization operations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Localization Management:
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Oversee the end-to-end localization process for video games, from planning to final delivery, to meet product release timelines and quality standards.
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Collaborate with project managers, developers, and creative teams to ensure all localized content aligns with the original vision and maintains consistent quality.
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Ensure the effective integration of localized assets, including text, audio, and graphics, into the game's user interface.
Team Management:
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Supervise and guide a team of translators, localization coordinators, and freelancers to ensure they meet project goals and maintain high translation standards.
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Conduct performance evaluations, provide feedback, and identify opportunities for professional development and training.
Quality Assurance:
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Implement and enforce rigorous quality assurance processes to maintain accuracy, cultural relevance, and linguistic integrity in all localized content.
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Work with QA teams to address any localization-related issues and ensure they are resolved promptly.
Language and Cultural Expertise:
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Stay up-to-date with industry trends, gaming terminology, and linguistic developments to provide valuable insights to the localization team.
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Utilize cultural expertise to adapt content, including humor, references, and idiomatic expressions, to resonate with target audiences.
Vendor Management:
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Build and maintain relationships with external localization vendors to ensure timely delivery and high-quality service.
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Negotiate contracts, review proposals, and manage the budget for localization projects.
Process Improvement:
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Identify opportunities to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the localization process and implement best practices accordingly.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Translation, Linguistics, or a related field from a four-year college or university; or 5+ years of Localization experience in entertainment industry (including Gaming industry).
- Strong understanding of cultural sensitivities and the ability to adapt content accordingly.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders effectively.
- Familiarity with localization tools and software.
- Leadership skills with the ability to motivate and mentor a team.
- Passion for video games and a deep appreciation for global gaming communities.
- Strong attention to deadlines and budgetary guidelines.
- Experience with Google Suite and Microsoft Office.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Professional certification (ex: Professional Certified Marketer)
- Understanding of the concept of Gaming business in Gaming industry.
- Understanding of video game concepts, terms, and gameplay (in particular RPGs).
- Good base of knowledge for gaming industry personalities and publications.
- Knowledge and history of RPGs .
- Established media contacts.
- Experience in content development and website design
- Business level speaking and writing skill in Japanese is plus.
Other Requirements:
- Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes
Key Attributes:
Candidate should demonstrate these skills
- Strong passion to introduce our game titles to the market
- Solid verbal and written English communication
- Good time management / Ability to meet schedules and deadlines
- Good negotiation
- Good sense for numbers / mathematics
- Critical thinking and problem-solving
- Planning and organizing
- Team participation with respect
- Multi-tasking
- Vendor relations
- A person of integrity
- Stress tolerance
- Detail Oriented
- Steady and prudent
- A love for Japanese games!
WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Work is typically performed either in an office environment with a moderate noise level or at your home.
- While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to frequently sit and occasionally must stand, walk, use hands and fingers, and may lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities include the ability to read and analyze data in hard copy and on a computer screen, measure, or identify using eyesight and adjust vision focus.
- Abilities to communicate verbally and in writing to individuals and groups.
